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title: Google goodies
date: "2003-08-13T12:00:00Z"
categories:
  - links
wp_id: 892
description: I found several useful new Google features including news alerts for tracking topics, a built-in calculator for quick math, and the tilde operator for finding synonyms within search results.
keywords: [google news alerts, google calculator, search operators, tilde operator, google search, synonym search]
---

Recent Google goodies: [News alerts](http://www.google.com/help/faq_newsalerts.html), [Calculator](http://www.google.com/help/features.html#calculator), and the [~ operator](http://www.google.com/help/refinesearch.html). [via GoogleBlog](http://google.blogspace.com)